Well I got the mech hanger today and it fits fine, but the LX front mech I got doesn't. It's a normal bottom pull front mech and isn't low profile enough to miss rear arm, which I hadn't thought of. I'll now need to find a 34.9mm mech like the one in Rob's pic above on his frame. Even it doesn't have much room.
I've got an old one of that type, a bottom of Shimano heap one, that is 31.8mm that I can make "fit". If I'm patient, a file and a bit of gentle bending of clamp will make it fit, if I'm not, an angle grinder and hammer might see some use.

The plate type also has a little fixing screw which attaches to a bit on the frame. What you need to do is get your head round the front mech varieties. You get top and bottom swing and top and bottom pull. I think you need a top swing bottom pull, but I'd check this yersell. If I get a chance I'll have a ruckle about the mech box, I had some oddities but they are buried somewhere.

Is this mech band size one of the three standard ones or is it different, I cant see why Marin would make a bike that didn't have a standard fit mech.
Shimano do a mech that is both top or bottom pull dependent on cable routing with the larger band size that comes with shims to fit the two smaller sizes. I have one currently fitted, best of all worlds

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